Slavné pražské vily - Sto a jeden dům s příběhem

While walking with a book, or with a book, we can visit the Sternberg Villa in Troja, known as the Troja Chateau, under the vineyards of Ovenec. If one gets lost on the way through Prague to Bertramka, one can, according to the account of W. A. Mozart's eldest son, Karl, go "by the gardens of the Counts of Buquoy on the left and the inn of the Number One on the right; then by the road about a quarter of a mile further on, then turn into a road separating to the right, narrower, but still passable, and one comes to a chestnut avenue leading up to the front door of the manor house." That manor is Bertramka. Let's move on through the centuries and through the farmsteads, into the 19th century. Lann's villa in Bubenec was one of the first family residences to appear in the orchards along the then main Bubenec road in the late 1860s and early 1870s, and one of the first ever Prague villas in the true sense of the word. Travelling through the age of villas, we come to Jan Kotěrov, whose early work attempted a symbiosis of the English family house tradition, and the first family house he built in Prague on the threshold of the 20th century - Trmal's villa in Strašnice. Then, for example, to the Prague German architect Josef Zasch, one of the most important representatives of Art Nouveau and Modernism in our country, and his Wilfert Villa Na Špejcharu. Or to the nearby villa of the famous graphic artist, sculptor, architect and author of applied art František Bílek, built according to the artist's own design. And a little further to the villa of the Czech politician, member of the Reich Council and the Czech Provincial Assembly Karel Kramář, built in 1911-1914 according to the project of the famous Friedrich Ohmann. Through the stories of dozens of villas, through a walk through the unique villa settlement of Baba, we come to Müller's villa in Střešovice by Adolf Loos, which became a literal pilgrimage site for architecture lovers and remains so to this day. If we jump over the imaginary fence of time by 60 years and move a little further to Břevnov, we will reach the Kuthan Villa by architect Vlado Milunić, inspired by Dutch architecture, which is expressive, picturesque and economical at the same time. Among the 28 post-war villas we can find the villa of Wimbledon winner Jan Kodes, the villa of the world-famous director Věra Chytilová and many others. The book with rich textual and pictorial documentation is again supplemented at the end with walking tours with maps.

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